Tim Barrera

Biography

Tim Barrera enters his 33rd season as a head coach and in his 27th season at UNC. He has more than doubled the previous Northern Colorado record for wins by a soccer head coach and now has more wins than the rest of the UNC soccer coaches combined. Barrera led UNC to the NCAA Tournament in 2015 and 2019 and the program has been in the Big Sky Championship game in four of the past five years. He is the longest-tenured head coach at Northern Colorado. Since the program joined the Big Sky in 2006, Barrera has coached two Offensive MVPs, four Defensive MVPs, three Goalkeepers of the Year and two Top Newcomers. He has placed a student-athlete on the All-Big Sky team 47 times. To go along with his most recent Big Sky championship, Barrera has also led Northern Colorado to a pair of North Central Conference championships (1999 and 2001) and a pair of Division II NCAA tournament berths (2001 and 2002). His squads have also won six National Soccer Coaches Association of America academic awards and four NSCAA team ethics awards. His teams also have won 13 or more games four times. In his first year at the helm of the Bears program in 1999, Barrera was named NCC coach of the year. Barrera helped Northern Colorado's Mandy Nilsen become a two-time All-American, in 1999 and 2001. She was the only Division II athlete to make the NSCAA/Adidas All-American Scholar first-team, and she graduated from Northern Colorado holding virtually every Bears scoring record. Before joining the Northern Col